TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tromp,Marlene
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Victorian Freaks: The Social Context of Freaking in Britain 
SN  - 9780814272015
AV  - QM691 .V53 2008
U1  - 616.0430941 22
PB  - Ohio State University Press
KW  - Social Conditions
KW  - history
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History, 19th Century
KW  - Congenital Abnormalities
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Freak shows
KW  - Abnormalities, Human
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Even as you and I : freak shows and lay discourse on spectacular deformity / Heather McHold -- Freaklore : the dissemination, fragmentation, and reinvention of the legend of Daniel Lambert, king of fat men / Joyce L. Huff -- White wings and six-legged muttons : the freakish animal / Timothy Neil -- "Poor Hoo Loo" : sentiment, stoicism, and the grotesque in British imperial medicine / Meegan Kennedy -- Elephant talk : language and enfranchisement in the Merrick case / Christine C. Ferguson -- The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle : Krao and the Victorian discourses of evolution, imperialism, and primitive sexuality / Nadja Durbach -- Empire and the Indian freak : the "Miniature Man" from Cawnpore and the "Marvellous Indian Boy" on tour in England / Marlene Tromp -- The Victorian mummy-fetish : H. Rider Haggard, Frank Aubrey, and the white mummy / Kelly Hurley -- Our bear women, ourselves : affiliating with Julia Pastrana / Rebecca Stern -- Queering the marriage plot : Wilkie Collins's The law and the lady / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Freaks that matter : the dolls' dressmaker, the doctor's assistant, and the limits of difference / Melissa Free -- A collaborative aesthetic : Levinas's idea of responsibility and the photographs of Charles Eisenmann and the late nineteenth-century freak-performer / Christopher R. Smit; Open Access
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/27912/
ER  -